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Ghosts of Flight 401 - MrBallen · Crime and Horror

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  Speaker 1: My wife is a total skeptic.
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  Speaker 2: But when I told her just a portion of today's story,
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  Speaker 2: specifically the part about the passenger in first class, you'll
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  Speaker 2: reason for that is in this story, as you'll see,
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  Speaker 2: how could they all be making this up? But before
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  Speaker 1: Around 8.30 p.m. on December 29, 1972, passengers inside of
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  Speaker 1: JFK International Airport in Queens, New.
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  Speaker 2: York, heard over the intercom that Eastern Airlines Flight 401.
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  Speaker 1: To Miami was now boarding.
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  Speaker 2: About 30 minutes later, all 176 passengers, which included the
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  Speaker 2: 13 crew members, had made it on board, and then
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  Speaker 2: at that point, the 13 crew members began making their
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  Speaker 2: final preparations for takeoff. Flight 401 was a very expensive
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  Speaker 2: and recently introduced model of plane by Eastern Airlines called
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  Speaker 2: the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar. And it was both unbelievably technologically
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  Speaker 2: advanced and unbelievably enormous. It sat up to 400 passengers,
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  Speaker 2: which meant instead of having four seats to a row,
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  Speaker 2: like you would expect inside of a passenger jet, the L-1011s.
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  Speaker 1: Had eight seats per row and they had two levels.
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  Speaker 2: There was the main level, which was the main cabin
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  Speaker 2: where all the passengers were, And then there was a
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  Speaker 2: second level, a lower level, that was only accessible via
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  Speaker 2: two small elevators that could barely fit one person inside
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  Speaker 2: of them in the back of the aircraft. And down
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  Speaker 2: on this lower level was a full-size kitchen, which had
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  Speaker 2: ovens and refrigerators. And also at the back of this
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  Speaker 2: lower level was a lounge area for flight staff.
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  Speaker 1: The pilot that night was Bob Loft, who.
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  Speaker 2: Was a strikingly handsome 55-year-old man with over 30,000 hours
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  Speaker 2: of flying experience. which for reference is a ton of
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  Speaker 2: flying experience. Captain Bob was known as a perfectionist who
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  Speaker 2: exuded confidence and who was cool under pressure. After Bob
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  Speaker 2: had boarded the aircraft, he had made his way right
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  Speaker 2: into the cockpit, which is the very front of the
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  Speaker 2: plane where the pilots fly the plane, and he had
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  Speaker 2: sat down in the customary captain's seat, which was the
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  Speaker 2: front left seat.
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  Speaker 1: And then after he had sat down.
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  Speaker 2: His 10 years younger first officer or co-pilot, a man
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  Speaker 2: named Burt Stockstill had joined him in the cockpit and
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  Speaker 2: sat down in the customary co-pilot.
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  Speaker 1: Seat, which was directly to the right of Captain Bob.
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  Speaker 2: And so after the pilot and co-pilot were both seated,
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  Speaker 2: the remaining two members of that night's cockpit crew came
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  Speaker 2: into the cockpit. Now, normally in most passenger jets, there
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  Speaker 2: were only two seats in the cockpit, but because L-1011
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  Speaker 2: planes were so massive, there were four seats in the cockpit.
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  Speaker 2: And so one of the last two men who joined
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  Speaker 2: the cockpit was 51-year-old Don Repo, who was the flight's engineer.
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  Speaker 1: And despite him being this.
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  Speaker 2: Big, strong ox of a man, he was actually known
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  Speaker 2: as being fairly soft-spoken and very approachable. And so Don
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  Speaker 2: came into the cockpit, he said hello, and then he
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  Speaker 2: sat down in the seat right behind the co-pilot, Bert,
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  Speaker 2: and then a few seconds after Don, the last man
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  Speaker 2: came into the cockpit.
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  Speaker 1: It was 47-year-old Angelo Donadeo.
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  Speaker 2: Angelo was not actually part of that night's flight crew, However,
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  Speaker 2: he was an employee of Eastern Airlines, and that night
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  Speaker 2: he needed to get to Miami, and so the company
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  Speaker 2: had put him on flight 401 and sat him in
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  Speaker 2: the fourth and final seat in the cockpit right behind
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  Speaker 2: Captain Bob. Around 9.10 p.m., all pre-flight checks had been completed,
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  Speaker 2: all passengers were seated, as was the crew, and so
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  Speaker 2: Captain Bob began taxiing over to the runway. Ten minutes later,
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  Speaker 2: at 9.20 p.m., Captain Bob pushed the throttles forward, and
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  Speaker 2: the plane began to take off. A few minutes later,
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  Speaker 2: and Flight 401 was airborne up in the night sky
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  Speaker 2: over New York, headed south towards Miami. For the next
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  Speaker 2: two hours, this flight was completely normal. In fact, it
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  Speaker 2: was so normal that one of the passengers, named Jerry Escow,
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  Speaker 2: actually wrote a letter while he was on the plane
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  Speaker 2: telling Eastern Airlines how great their airline was and how
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  Speaker 2: smooth this flight was.
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  Speaker 1: His plan was, once they landed, to mail this letter
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  Speaker 1: to Eastern Airlines.
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  Speaker 2: But at 11.32 p.m., so two hours and 12 minutes
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  Speaker 2: after takeoff, this flight would go from being very routine
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  Speaker 2: and normal to being anything but. At 11.32 p.m., Captain
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  Speaker 2: Bob began his approach to Miami International Airport, but when
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  Speaker 2: he lowered the plane's landing gear, his co-pilot Bert noticed
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  Speaker 2: they had a problem. L-1011 jets, like 401, have three
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  Speaker 2: pieces of landing gear. They have wheels that come down
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  Speaker 2: under the left wing, they have wheels that come down
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  Speaker 2: under the right wing, and they have.
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  Speaker 1: Wheels that pop out of the nose of the plane.
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  Speaker 2: And each of these pieces of landing gear has a
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  Speaker 2: corresponding little light bulb, a green light bulb, inside the cockpit,
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  Speaker 2: that once that piece of landing gear comes down and
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  Speaker 2: locks in place and is ready to be landed on,
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  Speaker 2: its green light will go on inside of the cockpit.
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  Speaker 2: But when Captain Bob lowered their landing gear, his co-pilot
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  Speaker 2: Bert noticed only two of the lights came on. The
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  Speaker 2: one that did not light up was the nose landing gear. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Captain Bob and the other men in the cockpit, when
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  Speaker 2: they saw this issue, they immediately assumed it had to
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  Speaker 2: be the light bulb itself that was faulty, not the
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  Speaker 2: actual nose landing gear, because this plane was brand new.
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  Speaker 2: It had been checked before they left, so the likelihood
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  Speaker 2: of the nose landing gear being faulty was incredibly slim.
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  Speaker 2: And so Captain Bob, while maintaining his approach towards Miami International,
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  Speaker 2: he retracted the landing gear, and then once it had
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  Speaker 2: come back into the plane, he just lowered it again,
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  Speaker 2: thinking this time all three lights would come on. But
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  Speaker 2: once again, once the landing gear was deployed the second time, Still,
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  Speaker 2: the nose landing gear light did not come on. And
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  Speaker 2: so frustrated, Captain Bob hopped on the radio and contacted
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  Speaker 2: Miami Air Traffic Control and told them that he could
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  Speaker 2: not confirm his landing gear was actually safe to land on.
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  Speaker 2: And so they would have to circle around for a
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  Speaker 2: bit in the sky and get it figured out. And
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  Speaker 2: so Miami Air Traffic Control acknowledged what Captain Bob said
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  Speaker 2: and then directed Captain Bob to fly out over the
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  Speaker 2: nearby Everglades, which is a.
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  Speaker 1: Massive wetlands area in Florida.
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  Speaker 2: And to stay out over the Everglades away from other
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  Speaker 2: traffic until they fix the problem. And so once flight
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  Speaker 2: 401 was out over the Everglades flying in a circular pattern,
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  Speaker 2: Captain Bob and his co-pilot set the plane to autopilot
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  Speaker 2: so that it would maintain a constant altitude of 2,000
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  Speaker 2: feet and a constant speed of 200 miles per hour.
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  Speaker 2: And so once the plane was all set, Captain Bob
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  Speaker 2: and his co-pilot Bert began fiddling with this front nose
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  Speaker 2: gear indicator lightbulb which they were convinced was faulty. And
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  Speaker 2: so they started by pressing on the light. And when
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  Speaker 2: that didn't work, they began twisting it. And when that
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  Speaker 2: didn't work, they actually pulled the light bulb off the
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  Speaker 2: panel and kind of blew the dirt and grime off
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  Speaker 2: of it. And then they jammed it back into the panel.
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  Speaker 2: But as soon as they did, not only did it
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  Speaker 2: not go back on, but they realized they had put
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  Speaker 2: it in sideways. And so they couldn't actually get it
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  Speaker 2: out again. And so now they're thinking this light's not
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  Speaker 2: going to go on at all. We need to find
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  Speaker 2: another way to make sure the nose landing gear has
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  Speaker 2: come down. And so Captain Bob at this point is
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  Speaker 2: totally frustrated. And so he turns around and he looks
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  Speaker 2: at Don Repo, the flight engineer who's sitting right.
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  Speaker 1: Behind the co-pilot.
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  Speaker 2: And he tells Don to go down into the hellhole
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  Speaker 2: and directly inspect the front landing gear himself. So the
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  Speaker 2: hellhole is a space right below the cockpit. And the
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  Speaker 2: way you get to it is through a trap door
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  Speaker 2: in the floor in the center of the cockpit. And
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  Speaker 2: then once down in the hellhole, there is this window
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  Speaker 2: that looks straight towards the front of the aircraft where
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  Speaker 2: you could look out and actually see the front landing
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  Speaker 2: gear and you could make sure it was down or not.
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  Speaker 2: And so Don Repo, he gets out of his seat
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  Speaker 2: and he opens up the hellhole trap door and he makes.
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  Speaker 1: His way down below.
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  Speaker 2: Meanwhile, 2,000 feet below Flight 401, a 43-year-old man named
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  Speaker 2: Robert Marquis, along with a friend of his, were.
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  Speaker 1: Looking for frogs in the Everglades riding around on Robert's airboat.
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  Speaker 2: An airboat is a flat-bottom boat with this huge fan
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  Speaker 2: on the back of it that propels it forward. It's
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  Speaker 2: popular in the Everglades because the water depth is so shallow.
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  Speaker 2: At points in the Everglades, the water's only a couple
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  Speaker 2: of inches deep. And so all around these two guys,
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  Speaker 2: it is totally pitch black out, There are no buildings
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  Speaker 2: or people for miles and miles and miles. Their only
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  Speaker 2: light source is Robert's headlamp. And so at some point,
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  Speaker 2: Robert turns off the airboat, and he and his friend
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  Speaker 2: are just standing in the.
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  Speaker 1: Middle of it, kind of scanning around on either side.
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  Speaker 2: And all around them, they can hear the sound of
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  Speaker 2: alligators growling and snakes and frogs moving about.
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  Speaker 1: The tall grass.
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  Speaker 2: And as they're just kind of silently looking around them,
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  Speaker 2: out of the corner of Robert's eye, he sees something.
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  Speaker 1: And so he looks up right as he's this huge.
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  Speaker 2: Orange and yellow flash that kind of came out of
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  Speaker 2: the ground, roughly five miles away from where they were.
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  Speaker 2: And basically, as soon as Robert saw it, this flash
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  Speaker 2: dissipated and it was just totally gone. And so he
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  Speaker 2: turned to his friend who had not seen this flash
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  Speaker 2: and And Robert said, hey, let's go investigate.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see what that was.
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  Speaker 2: And so Robert fired up his boat again and he
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  Speaker 2: began flying across the Everglades straight in the direction of
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  Speaker 2: where he.
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  Speaker 1: Saw this flash.
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  Speaker 2: And after 15 minutes of cruising at 40 miles per
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  Speaker 2: hour across this dark expanse, they reached the area where.
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  Speaker 1: This flash had been.
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  Speaker 2: And Robert and his friend, they just could not believe
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  Speaker 2: what they were looking at. About 20 minutes earlier, back
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  Speaker 2: up inside of flight 401, When Captain Bob turned around
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  Speaker 2: in his seat to tell the flight engineer, Don Repo,
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  Speaker 2: to go down into the hellhole, it's believed that Captain
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  Speaker 2: Bob nudged the steering wheel with his leg. And this
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  Speaker 2: little nudge was enough to disengage the plane's autopilot, which
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  Speaker 2: sent the plane into a gradual descent. But nobody noticed. Because, one,
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  Speaker 2: it was totally pitch black outside. The Everglades below them,
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  Speaker 2: there's no lights, there's nothing, and there was no moon
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  Speaker 2: that night.
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  Speaker 1: And so when they're looking out.
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  Speaker 2: The window, there would have been no visual cues that
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  Speaker 2: they were going down, up, or anything. It just would
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  Speaker 2: have looked like a total void outside. And two, the
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  Speaker 2: descent they were now suddenly in was so gradual, it
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  Speaker 2: would not have felt like they were tumbling out of
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  Speaker 2: the sky.
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  Speaker 1: It would have felt like they were just cruising as expected.
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  Speaker 2: And three, all of the men in the cockpit were
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  Speaker 2: completely fixated on this light bulb problem. In fact, they
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  Speaker 2: were so fixated that when an alarm went off inside
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  Speaker 2: of the cockpit telling them they had dipped below their
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  Speaker 2: intended altitude of 2,000 feet, they were.
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  Speaker 1: Now going down, nobody noticed.
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  Speaker 2: Although, to their credit, this alarm only sounded once and
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  Speaker 2: it wasn't that loud. And so not long after Don
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  Speaker 2: Repo had gone down into the hellhole, the plane crashed
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  Speaker 2: into the Everglades. No one on board flight 401 from
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  Speaker 2: the cockpit crew to the passengers to the other flight
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  Speaker 2: staff had any idea they were in an emergency until
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  Speaker 2: they hit the ground.
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  Speaker 1: And when they hit the ground, the plane exploded.
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  Speaker 2: And that was what Robert Marquis saw when he looked
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  Speaker 2: up and saw that yellow and orange flash. And so
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  Speaker 2: Robert and his friend, they speed over to the crash site.
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  Speaker 2: And when they get there, they are the first ones there.
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  Speaker 2: And even though they're looking out and they can hear
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  Speaker 2: the sound of all these people screaming and crying and moaning,
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  Speaker 2: they can't see anything because the fire from this huge
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  Speaker 2: explosion was already out because the swampy wetlands had pretty
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  Speaker 2: much immediately extinguished it.
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  Speaker 1: And even though the plane had crashed into.
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  Speaker 2: The ground at over 200 miles per hour, it had
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  Speaker 2: not struck the ground at a very steep angle. because
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  Speaker 2: basically the plane was in this gradual descent pattern and
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  Speaker 2: just kind of coasted until it hit the ground. And
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  Speaker 2: so that combined with the soft muddy ground of the
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  Speaker 2: Everglades meant that the impact of the plane hitting the
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  Speaker 2: ground was not nearly as violent as other plane crashes were.
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  Speaker 1: And that ultimately saved lives.
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  Speaker 2: In fact, dozens of passengers survived the initial impact with
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  Speaker 2: the ground, but many of them were left with these
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  Speaker 2: horrible injuries or they were trapped within the wreckage, or both.
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  Speaker 2: When Robert and his friend arrived at the edge of
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  Speaker 2: the crash scene, Robert lifted up his headlamp and began
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  Speaker 2: to scan, and he saw all these body parts sticking
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  Speaker 2: out of the ground, and then his light rested on
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  Speaker 2: the first survivor he saw, and it was this man
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  Speaker 2: whose clothes had been completely burned off from the explosion.
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  Speaker 1: All he had on.
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  Speaker 2: Was just a little bit of his socks on both ankles.
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  Speaker 2: And this man was still strapped into the seat that
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  Speaker 2: he had been on on the plane. And when the
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  Speaker 2: plane had broken up, his seat had fallen forward into
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  Speaker 2: the mud, pinning this man's upper body and most of
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  Speaker 2: his face under several inches of water. And so as
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  Speaker 2: Robert had scanned over with his light, his light had
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  Speaker 2: hit this man's face and he had looked up and
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  Speaker 2: pleaded with Robert and his friend to come get him
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  Speaker 2: before he drowned. And so Robert and his friends, they
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  Speaker 2: jumped off their boat and ran over to this guy
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  Speaker 2: and pulled the chair up and out of the water.
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  Speaker 1: Saving this guy's life.
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  Speaker 2: But as soon as he was up and out of
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  Speaker 2: the water, Robert and his friend began hearing more calls
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  Speaker 2: from other people in the darkness screaming for help. Robert
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  Speaker 2: and his friend would do their absolute best to save
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  Speaker 2: as many people as they possibly could, but there was
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  Speaker 2: just too many.
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  Speaker 1: People who needed saving and not enough time.
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  Speaker 2: About 30 minutes after Robert and his friend had arrived
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  Speaker 2: at the scene, The Coast Guard showed up in helicopters
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  Speaker 2: and they, along with Robert and his friend, would spend
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  Speaker 2: the entire night pulling as many people to safety as
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  Speaker 2: they possibly could. By the time the sun came up
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  Speaker 2: on the following day, there were no other survivors left
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  Speaker 2: to save. All told, 99 people perished and 77 survived.
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  Speaker 2: Amongst the dead were Captain Bob Loft and his co-pilot
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  Speaker 2: Bert Stockstill and their flight engineer Don Repo, who had
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  Speaker 2: gone down into the hellhole. Amongst these survivors was Angelo Donadeo,
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  Speaker 2: the fourth man in the cockpit, as well as Jerry Escow,
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  Speaker 2: the man who ironically had written that letter to Eastern
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  Speaker 2: Airlines saying how wonderful that flight had been. A major
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  Speaker 2: investigation following the crash would confirm that the reason flight
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  Speaker 2: 401 went down was because of a number of factors,
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  Speaker 2: most notably human error. The investigation would also confirm that
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  Speaker 2: the nose landing gear was working perfectly fine. light bulb
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  Speaker 2: not coming on was a result of the light bulb
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  Speaker 2: being burned out. Following the investigation, Eastern Airlines would make
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  Speaker 2: every effort to compensate both the survivors of the crash
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  Speaker 2: and also families of those who were killed in the crash.
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  Speaker 2: Eastern Airlines would also make major changes to their training
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  Speaker 2: for their pilots and co-pilots and anybody that was ever
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  Speaker 2: going to be in the cockpit to ensure this type
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  Speaker 2: of disaster never happened again. But This was not the
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  Speaker 2: end of the story for Flight 401. I was recently
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  Speaker 2: eating lunch with a friend of mine in Uskapog, Rhode Island,
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  Speaker 2: when he asked me, John, what is your biggest dream
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  Speaker 2: in life? Now, ever since I was a literal newborn baby,
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  Speaker 2: I've had a huge dream, but I've always been too
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  Speaker 2: scared to commit to it. But for some reason, when
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  Speaker 2: my friend in Uskapog asked me this question, I felt
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  Speaker 2: this euphoria growing inside of me, and then before I
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  Speaker 2: could stop myself, I blurted out the truth. I want
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  Speaker 2: to create a mildly effective.
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  Speaker 1: mildly effective....
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  Speaker 2: I want to make a mildly effective cold medicine made
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  Speaker 2: exclusively out of Egyptian fire ants. And then before my
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  Speaker 2: friend could react to this revelation, I turned and laughed
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  Speaker 2: headfirst out the glass window. And then when I hit
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  Speaker 2: the ground and I turned around, expecting to see my
• 17:12
  Speaker 2: friend angry and staring down at me, ready to fight me.
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  Speaker 2: But instead, he was standing on our table doing a jig,
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  Speaker 2: stomping on our plates and our cups and all around him.
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  Speaker 2: Our waiters and waitresses were cheering, saying, Go, John, go!
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  Speaker 2: And so go I did. After a quick salute to
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  Speaker 2: the gang, I turned and I ran directly into traffic.
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  Speaker 2: And for 97 miles, I ran along the freeway until
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  Speaker 2: I got to Chicopee, Massachusetts, where I climbed up into
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  Speaker 2: a tree, and I fired up my coal-powered laptop, and
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  Speaker 2: I got.
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  Speaker 2: For almost three years after the crash, hundreds of Eastern
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Airline employees began to experience a terrifying phenomenon. Now, at first,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: many of these employees were going to their superiors and
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: reporting what happened to them. But very early on, Eastern
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: Airlines made it clear that they didn't want anybody to
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: talk about this. Anytime an employee made one of these
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: reports about this phenomenon, they were either sent to the
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: psychiatrist or they were just fired. However, despite this intense
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: pressure from Eastern Airlines to their employees to be quiet
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: about what was going on inside of their ranks, there
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: were still some very brave employees who had firsthand experience
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: with this terrifying phenomenon who still came forward and told
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: their stories to the press and to journalists.
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: They just did it anonymously.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: And so I'm going to tell you two of the
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: most chilling accounts from those employees. Keep in mind, the
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: names used in these stories have all been changed. In
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: March of 1973, so three months after Flight 401 had
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: crashed in the Everglades, an Eastern Airlines flight attendant named
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: Ginny was assigned to a flight from New York to
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Working with her on this flight was
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: her very close friend and fellow flight attendant, a woman
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: named Denise. Neither of these two women were on Flight
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: 401 when it crashed. The plane these two women would
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: be working on on their flight to Florida was was
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: called number 318 by Eastern Airlines, and it was an L-1011,
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: just like flight 401 had been. In fact, plane number
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: 318 actually had some original parts from flight 401 on it,
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: because it would turn out after that huge investigation was
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: done on the crash, the investigators discovered lots of parts
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: from flight 401.
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: Were still in pretty good shape.
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: And so after rigorously testing them and ensuring they did
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: really work, those parts were actually installed on other L-1011
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: jets in the Eastern Airline fleet.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: Now, for the record, this was not.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Considered an inappropriate thing to do. These parts were extremely expensive,
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: and they worked perfectly fine, and they were not involved
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: in causing Flight 401 to crash. And so no one
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: batted an eye when Eastern Airlines put these parts on
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: their other planes. So Ginny and Denise, along with several
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: other Eastern Airlines flight attendants, board plane number 318. And
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: after takeoff, the flight attendants began going through the very
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: long and drawn out process of getting food and drink
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: for the nearly 200 people on board the flight. And
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: so the way the flight attendants divvied up the work
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: is they would have some of the attendants on the
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: main level of the plane in the cabin taking orders
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: from all the passengers and And then the other flight
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: attendants would be down on the lower level, the second
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: level of the plane where the kitchen.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Was, preparing all the food and drinks.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: And so at some point during this process, Denise, who
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: was up on the main level helping with taking orders,
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: realized she didn't have anything to do. She had taken
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: all the orders she could, and so she decided she
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: would head down to the second level, to the kitchen,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: where her good friend Ginny was, to see if she
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: could help her. But ironically, as Denise got in the
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: elevator in the back of the plane and began heading
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: down to the second level, Ginny, who was on the
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: second level, discovered she did not have anything to do.
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: She'd already prepped her cart. And so she had gotten
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: into the other elevator and began going up to the
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: main level to see if Denise needed any help. And
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: so the two women literally passed each other in their elevators,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: but didn't see each other. And so once Ginny arrived
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: at the main level, the cabin level, she got off
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: the elevator and And she walked down the aisle and
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: she began asking around to the other attendants if they
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: knew where Denise was. And they would tell her, oh,
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: you know, she just left a minute ago to go
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: down to see you. And so after a couple of minutes,
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: Jenny would leave the main level and go back down
• 23:04
  Speaker 2: the elevator to the lower level to find Denise. Now,
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: to understand what happens next, you need to have a
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: basic understanding of the layout of the second level. So
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: when you come down on either of those two elevators,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: When the doors open, you'd be looking down a stretch
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: of hallway, basically the length of the plane from the
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: back towards the front. And when you stepped off the elevator,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: you'd be stepping into the middle of the kitchen.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: Now the kitchen was very, very cramped.
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: And on the left side was a row of ovens
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: that were all stacked up against each other. And then
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: on the other side, on the right side was a
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: row of cabinets and cupboards. If you were to walk
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: down the kitchen straight towards the front of the plane,
• 23:45
  Speaker 2: you would eventually reach a wall that separated.
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: The kitchen to the lounge area.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: And there was a door slightly off to the right
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: side on this wall that you could walk through to
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: get into the lounge. So if you were standing in
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: the kitchen and looking in the direction of this door,
• 24:00
  Speaker 2: you wouldn't really be able to see into the lounge
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: area because, again, the door was kind of off to
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: the side. you would have to actually go over to
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: the door and poke your head through to get a
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: full unobstructed view of the lounge. And all the lounge was,
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: was a couple of sofas and chairs kind of arranged
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: in a circle. So Ginny has gotten back in the
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: elevator and she's made her way back downstairs to continue
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: looking for Denise. She gets down to the lower level,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: the doors open up and she looks out into the
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: kitchen and Denise is not there. In fact, the kitchen
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: is totally empty and the door leading into the lounge
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: area is shut. so she can't even see in part
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: of the way into the lounge to see if anybody
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: is in there. But the second Ginny stepped off the
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: elevator into the kitchen, she immediately had this powerful sense
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: that Denise was definitely down there somewhere on the second
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: level with her, probably in the lounge area that she
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: couldn't see. And because Ginny felt so confident that Denise
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: was down there, she actually didn't start by calling out
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: for Denise or walking to the door, opening it up,
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: and looking into the lounge to make sure Denise was there. Instead,
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: Ginny just turned to the left and went to the
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: ovens and began preparing food for the attendants upstairs. And
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: as she's making these plates of food, Ginny would periodically
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: look over at the closed door leading into the lounge,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: kind of expecting it to open up at any point
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: and see Denise walk out. But after a couple of minutes,
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: no one had opened the door from the lounge. And
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Ginny was thinking to herself, you know, I'm making quite
• 25:30
  Speaker 2: a bit of noise over here. If anybody was down here,
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Wouldn't they come out of the lounge and just see
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: who it was? And because Ginny, again, had this really
• 25:38
  Speaker 2: intense feeling that she was not alone down there, she
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: began to think, wait a minute, is Denise playing a
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: practical joke on me? Is she hiding in the lounge?
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Or is she hiding in one of the cabinets on
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: the right side here and she's going to jump out
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: and grab me? And so the second Ginny began thinking
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: about that, she became really paranoid. And so as she's
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: making this food, she's pretty much constantly looking over at
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: the door or kind of scanning behind her, waiting for
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Denise to launch out and scare her.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: But again, after several more minutes.
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: Jenny didn't see anybody come out of the lounge and
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: none of the cabinet doors opened up. It was just
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: her down there. However, the longer she stayed down there,
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the stronger that feeling got that someone was in the
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: room with her. And so now she can't even make
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: her food. She's completely turned around. just scanning all around
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: the kitchen, really at this point, hoping.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Denise jumps out to scare her.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: And when Denise didn't do that, Jenny just began walking
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: over to the door that would lead into the lounge.
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: And so when she reached the door, her heart was
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: racing like mad. She reached down to the handle, she
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: turned it, she pushed it open, and she poked her
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: head in real quick.
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: And there was no one in the lounge. But immediately, the.
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: Second her head was in that room, that feeling that
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: someone was down there with her spiked. And she got
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: chills all over her body. And she ran into the
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: back of the lounge and looked behind all of the
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: chairs and sofas, praying at this point that Denise was
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: going to be down there. But after looking all over
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: the back of the lounge, there was no one there.
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: And so finally, Ginny turns around and she's totally wracked
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: with fear. Because now she's on the very far end
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: of the lounge. There's no one in the lounge. She
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: knows there's no one in the kitchen. And here she
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: is still getting that sensation that she was not alone
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: down there. But she has to go all the way
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: back across the lounge through that door into the kitchen
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: to get back to the elevator so she can escape.
• 27:31
  Speaker 2: And so Ginny almost instinctively moved immediately to the left
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: side of the lounge and put her back up against
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: the wall to make sure no one could be behind her.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: And then she began slowly inching her way along the
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: left wall towards the door that was now open that
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: would lead back into the kitchen. And as she's slowly
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: shimmying along, her view of the kitchen is getting bigger
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: and bigger and bigger. And the whole time she's thinking,
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: I'm going to see someone in the kitchen because this
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: sensation that someone is down here with me is not
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: going away. But when she finally gets to the door
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: and crosses into the kitchen, there's still no one there.
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: And so she makes a run at that point to
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: the elevator. She starts hitting the button. And as she's
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: hitting the button, she's turning around. And she has that
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: awful feeling that someone's right behind her. And then finally
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: the car comes down. She hops inside the elevator. She
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: shuts the doors. She hits the button. And she begins
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: going back up.
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: When the elevator cart got back to the main level.
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: And the doors opened again, Ginny almost knocked over the
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: flight attendant that was standing right outside of it, a
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: woman named Mildred. And after Mildred and Ginny kind of
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: regained their balance, they both looked at each other and
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: Mildred could see very clearly that Ginny looked horrible. She
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: was totally pale.
• 28:41
  Speaker 1: She was sweating. And so Mildred said, Ginny, are you okay?
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: What's going on? And Ginny would just say, I don't know.
• 28:48
  Speaker 1: I can't tell you what's going on. I don't know.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: But Mildred, instead of asking follow-up questions... just said, Ginny,
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: you need to come with me. And so Ginny would
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: follow Mildred, who led them back around behind the elevators
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: to the space in the back of the plane, kind
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: of out of view of the passengers. And there, Ginny
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: would find Denise. And Denise looked pale as a ghost.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: She was sweating and looked totally shaken up. It would
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: turn out when Ginny left the lower level for the
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: first time to come up to the main level to
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: look for Denise and then learned that Denise was not
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: up there, that Denise had actually gone down to look
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: for Ginny. In those few minutes that Ginny was up
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: on the main level before she went back down again
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: to continue looking for Denise, Denise was on the lower level.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: And Denise would say when she got off the elevator
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: into the kitchen, there was no one down there, but
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: immediately she believed Ginny had to be down there because
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: of the strong sense that she was not alone down there. However,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: when she opened up the door to look into the lounge,
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: she didn't see anyone and it totally spooked her. She
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: shut the door and she ran back to the elevators
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: and she went back upstairs. And as she was going
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: up in her elevator car, who once again passed her
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: in the other elevator car, Ginny. And so once again,
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: the two women did not see each other. And so
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: these two women who had never experienced anything like this
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: before in their lives had nearly identical experiences, totally independent
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: of each other, just a couple of minutes apart in
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: the exact same space. it was just too many coincidences
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: for them to totally write it off. And so that
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: was a big reason why they felt like they had
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: to come forward with their information. One month later, plane
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: number 318, the same plane that Ginny and Denise had
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: had their frightening experiences on, was at Newark Liberty International
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: Airport in New Jersey, undergoing pre-flight checks from its crew
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: before its flight to Miami that morning. After most of
• 30:49
  Speaker 2: the checks were done, the passengers were allowed to board
• 30:52
  Speaker 2: the plane, and then after it seemed like most of
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: the passengers had arrived and taken their seats, the senior
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: flight attendant, whose name was Sis, began counting the people
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: on board the plane to make sure they had everyone.
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: And after counting up and down the rows, she realized
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: their head count was off by one. They had one
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: too many people. And so when Sis began recounting, she
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: actually quickly identified the discrepancy. Sis was standing in first
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: class in the aisle, And as she was counting down
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: the left side of first class passengers, she noticed there
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: was an Eastern Airlines captain seated in one of the seats.
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: And so immediately Sis thought, oh, okay, I don't recognize
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: this person, but since he's in uniform, he must be deadheading.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Deadheading is a fairly common practice for airline employees, where
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: if they need to be on a particular flight, but
• 31:42
  Speaker 2: are not physically at the origin airport, they will just
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: hop on another company flight that happens to be going
• 31:48
  Speaker 2: on to the airport they need to go to, and
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: at least in the 1970s, it was not uncommon for
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: employees not necessarily to tell the flight staff until they
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: were literally on the plane, because these employees would just
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: check the manifest, see if there were openings, and then
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: climb on board. And so Sis assumed that was exactly
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: what this man had done, and that was why he
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: was unaccounted for, and it was why they had this
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: extra person. And so she just needed to get his
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: name to account for him. And so Sis turned and
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: took a couple of steps until she was right in
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: front of this guy who was still just seated looking
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: straight ahead.
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: And Sis introduced.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Herself and asked him if he was deadheading. But the
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: captain just continued to stare straight ahead and didn't even
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: seem to register that Sis was talking to him despite
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: the fact that Sis was right on top of him
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: and speaking very, very clearly and nobody else was talking.
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: And so Sis, who was aware of the fact that
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: this guy clearly should have heard her, just kind of
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: waited for a second and then just asked.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: Again, you know, hey, what's your name? I need to
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: make sure that you are in fact deadheading.
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: But again, this captain just sat there without moving and
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: didn't remotely react to CIS. Now, by this point, another
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: flight attendant named Diane had looked over and actually saw
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: CIS having this strange interaction with this Eastern Airlines captain.
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: And so Diane walked over and listened as CIS for
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: a third time, tried to get this guy's attention, but
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: he still did nothing. And so Diane and Sis, they
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: start looking at each other like, what do we do
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: about this? And at some point Sis just says, okay,
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: I'm going to go tell the captain, you know, he
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: can deal with this.
• 33:22
  Speaker 1: And so Diane stayed.
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: In the aisle next to the silent seated captain while
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: Sis turned and walked towards the cockpit. And she told
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: the captain whose name was George. And so George, he
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: leaves the cockpit with Sis by his side, And they
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: start walking down the aisle back towards where this guy
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: was and where Diane was. And by the time they
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: get there, six other passengers kind of in the general
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: vicinity had noticed something strange was going on. And so
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: they were all kind of turned around in their seats
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: looking at this captain who was sitting there and Diane
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: and Sis and George kind of waiting to see what
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: was going to happen. And so George insists they walk
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: right up alongside Diane and the seated silent captain. And
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: George immediately crouched down to get a good look at
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: this guy's face. Because again, this captain is just looking
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: straight ahead with a hat on.
• 34:11
  Speaker 1: And so no one had really looked at him yet.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: And so George kneels down and he sees this guy's
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: face for the first time.
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: And he falls over and goes, oh my God, that's
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Bob Loft.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: The same Bob Loft who had died on flight 401,
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: the captain of flight 401. George had known Bob really
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: well and knew exactly what Bob looked like. But before Bob, sis, Diane,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: or the six other passengers that were all watching could
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: do anything, the seated silent captain that looked exactly like
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: Bob Loft died.
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  Speaker 1: Vanished into thin air right in front of all of them.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: And immediately, the six passengers on board the flight that
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: saw this happen became hysterical. They could not understand what
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: they had just seen. People are screaming and crying. And George, Diane,
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: and Sis, they were very shaken at what they saw,
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: but they knew they were in charge of this flight.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: And so they tried to calm down the passengers. But
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: then very quickly, they organized a search of the plane
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: because they're telling themselves no one can just disappear into
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: thin air.
• 35:12
  Speaker 1: This guy has to be somewhere on the plane. And
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: so for over an hour.
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  Speaker 2: The passengers were told to stay in their seats and
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: were told to stay calm while the flight crew searched
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: every crevice, every nook and cranny of this flight to
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: see if they could find this guy. But they never did.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: And so after a very long delay, plane number 318,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: along with its very shaken up passengers and flight crew, eventually.
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: Rumbled out onto the runway and took off.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: When they landed in Miami, the first thing George, Diane,
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: and sis all did is they went in and filed
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: a report.
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: About what they had seen about this vanishing person.
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: But Eastern airline didn't do anything about their reports. In fact,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: the log book where these reports were kept was conspicuously
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: missing a couple of weeks later when some other employees
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: of the airline heard about this vanishing person.
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: And wanted to read the reports themselves.
• 36:09
  Speaker 2: And when these employees went to their superiors and asked
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: if they could get this logbook, the answer from the
• 36:16
  Speaker 2: top was, George, Diane, and Sis never filed those reports.
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: There was no vanishing person. This whole thing is a
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: bunch of crap. But George, Diane, and Sis all said,
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: we filed those reports. And apparently some other pilots within
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Eastern Airlines had actually seen the reports before the logbook
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: went missing. and they would tell other people that what
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: they read was terrifying. Over the next two years, there
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: would be an astounding number of other totally unexplainable events
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: that took place on other planes within Eastern Airlines' fleet. However,
• 36:50
  Speaker 2: the strange events only occurred on L-1011 jets that had
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: parts on them from the crashed Flight 401. Some of
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: these unexplained events included more sightings of the silent seated
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: captain who looked just like Bob Loft. And in fact,
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: one of those sightings was by an Eastern Airlines executive who,
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: after seeing this captain vanish into thin air right in
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: front of him, the executive freaked out and ran off
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: the plane and demanded the plane be searched top to bottom.
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: But like the last search, nothing was found.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: On another occasion, the catering company that loaded food directly
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: into the second level of these L-1011s, basically right into
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: the kitchen, One of their staff spotted a man wandering
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: around the lower level that looked just like Don Repo,
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: the flight engineer from the doomed Flight 401. And when
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: the staff member spoke to this man who looked like
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Don Repo, Don Repo turned towards him and then vanished
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: into thin air. The catering company was so scared when
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: this happened that they refused to go back into the
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: plane and it caused a massive delay. On another flight,
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: onboard plane number 318, the pilot and co-pilot began hearing
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: banging coming from the hellhole.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: And when the pilot got up and opened up the
• 38:09
  Speaker 1: hellhole and went down below and shined his light, he
• 38:12
  Speaker 1: didn't see anything.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: But when he went to climb back up into the cockpit,
• 38:16
  Speaker 2: he looked up and standing in the cockpit was once
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: again Don Repo looking straight down at him, who then
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: promptly vanished right in front of him. On another flight,
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: a female passenger and coach, who had been quiet the
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: entire flight, suddenly began screaming hysterically. And when they went
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: up to her and asked her what was wrong, she
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: was pointing at the seat next to her and said
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: a man had suddenly appeared right next to her. He
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: did not walk in. He just appeared next to her.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: And then when she began screaming, he vanished right in.
• 38:46
  Speaker 1: Front of her.
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: This woman was so upset that when they landed finally in.
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: Phoenix, Arizona... she had to be.
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: Restrained in a straitjacket when they pulled her off the plane.
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: But as terrifying as all of these events were, there
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: was at least one instance where these apparitions appeared to
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: be helpful to the people on the plane. One captain
• 39:05
  Speaker 2: said he walked into the cockpit, and standing in there
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: was flight engineer Don Repo, and Don promptly told the
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: captain about a specific malfunction in one of the engines.
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: Before Don vanished in front of this captain.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Now, this captain was horrified at what he had just seen,
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: but he did actually go down and have that engine
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: looked at, and sure enough, the malfunction that Don Repo
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: said it had, it had. Then, finally, in 1974, all
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: of these strange events just came to an abrupt stop.
• 39:37
  Speaker 1: Now, no one knows exactly why.
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: But in 1974, Eastern Airlines, despite telling the world they
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: didn't believe any of the reports of these strange happenings
• 39:47
  Speaker 2: on their planes, despite that, that year, they went in
• 39:51
  Speaker 2: to every single one of their L-1011 jets, and they
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: removed any parts that had been placed on them from
• 39:59
  Speaker 2: the crashed Flight 401. Despite the fact, none of those
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: parts were faulty. They were removing perfectly good parts and
• 40:07
  Speaker 2: they never gave a reason. And after they did that,
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: all the sightings just stopped. So that's going to do it.
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